AI for Humans · Friday, October 2, 2026
Prominent AI figures, including Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg, met with the President to discuss the future of AI and superintelligence. Jensen Huang's prior comments about AI inflicting 'enormous amount of pain and suffering' for long-term benefit have drawn criticism, with concerns that those in power will not experience this 'pain' themselves.
“All of these famous AI people went to meet with the president and they talked about super intelligence, which we all know already existed as a label.”
“Yeah. You know, it's kind of like in order to save you, they got to hurt you first. You know, in order to, you know, that's the nature of surgery. They got to cut you open and save you.”
“The reason that upset me so much, and I think a lot of other people as well, myriad reasons, But I don't believe that anybody on that seating chart is going to feel your term pain. That's the problem.”